Roger & Son Concrete Begins Work on NYPA Headquarters Site for New $330M Office Project
By JOHN JORDAN
WHITE PLAINS—The long-awaited new headquarters for the New York Power Authority is now underway following the signing of a Project Labor Agreement last week between the union building trades and the general contractor.
Officials with the local Building Trades and a principal of the general contractor, LRC Construction of White Plains, confirmed that the PLA is in place on the new 16-story NYPA headquarters going up at the Hamilton Green site which is being developed by Cappelli Enterprises and RXR.
The New York Power Authority will relocate from its current headquarters property at 123 Main St. to the new headquarters which, in mid-2027, will be located at the former site of the White Plains Mall. The new NYPA headquarters is likely the first, Class A office building constructed in Downtown White Plains since 10 Bank St. opened in 1989.
The union construction company, Roger & Sons Concrete, Inc., of LaGrangeville, NY, began operations this month, mobilizing on the site to perform its first pour on Aug. 7. Louis Cappelli said that all project contracts have been awarded to union contractors.
The PLA comes after months of negotiations with the building trades and after the New York Power Authority acquired the pad site from Mr. Cappelli’s LRC Construction and RXR for $30 million in February. He told CONSTRUCTION NEWS that the New York Power Authority project will likely total $330 million to complete.
Mr. Cappelli said that LRC/RXR worked collaboratively on the project design drawings, which are complete. Gensler is the architectural firm on the project and ME is the mechanical engineering firm working on the headquarters project. The building will be approximately 260 feet in height and will total approximately 310,000sf.
The NYPA building and a small residential building, totaling 127 units owned by Cappelli/RXR, will be constructed simultaneously. Completion of both the NYPA headquarters and the residential building are scheduled for June 2027 and will complete the Hamilton Green development. Mr. Cappelli estimated that, with the NYPA project, the total Hamilton Green development cost will be approximately $900 million. The project will feature about 600 housing units and approximately 40,000sf of retail space.
Jeff Loughlin, president of the Building & Construction Trades of Westchester & Putnam Counties, Inc., said, “The PLA now in place is a tremendous vote of confidence in union labor by everyone associated with this project—including NYPA, the Cappelli organization and the many officials in the City of White Plains. They recognize the value and the quality construction that union companies bring to a landmark project like the new NYPA headquarters.”
Signing a PLA with the unions “was a good opportunity for us to re-engage with the building trades of Westchester,” Mr. Cappelli said. “The last PLA we signed was in 2009 for the Ritz Carlton (in White Plains).”
Mr. Cappelli added that his firm has also begun discussions on the massive redevelopment of the Galleria Mall site in Downtown White Plains, which is currently in the approval process. The estimated $2.5-billion project is being proposed by Cappelli Enterprises, Pacific Retail Capital Partners and Aareal Bank. He said that the unions and the development team “are committed to making (the PLA) happen.”
In addition to the Hamilton Green and Galleria sites, another potential development project could emerge at the current NYPA headquarters site at 123 Main St. across the street from the Hamilton Green property. NYPA has determined that the building is outdated but has not yet decided what it plans to do with the property now that it has moved forward with its new corporate headquarters.
Published: August 15, 2025.